Brian Dessent wrote: For the record:
On the issue of not having future binary packages blow away a source-compiled optimized version, you could do something similar to how the gcc-mingw-* packages work. Those packages unpack to a single .tgz file and postinstall/preremove scripts that extract/remove (respectively) its contents to the proper location. It's an extra level of indirection in the packaging. (I'm not entirely sure why this is done but I think it is a convenience so that the upstream mingw binary tarballs can be used without repackaging.)
Not exactly true, repackaging is still needed for gcc-mingw since the used paths are different. The main reason is that extracting the packages would fail if the directory usr/i686-pc-mingw (and links inside) is missing, so the postinstall script creates this directory and links first before the tarball is extracted. Gerrit -- =^..^=
